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Insight magazine asks: Is silver scandal on the horizon?

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:35p ET Monday, March 15, 2004

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CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
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Fed in no hurry to raise interest rates amid so little job creation

Section: Daily Dispatches

3p ET Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Insight magazine, a division of The Washington
Times, today published a wonderful examination
of GATA consultant Ted Butler's exhaustive
exposure of the manipulation of the silver
market. The examination comes in an article by
the magazine's staff writer, Kelly Patricia
O'Meara, and it shows how Butler's agitation,
lately aided by the GATA army, is having an

Dollar sinks on suspicions that Japanese intervention may be ending

Section: Daily Dispatches

Patient Fed leaves rates unchanged

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By Glenn Somerville
Reuters
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Federal Reserve opted on Tuesday to
keep interest rates at 1958 lows and signaled it was in no

Currency intervention works only in short term, Japanese diplomat says

Section: Daily Dispatches

Bank of Japan report sinks dollar vs. yen

By Gertrude Chavez
Reuters
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

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NEW YORK -- The dollar plummeted against the yen on
Tuesday, reeling from a report late in the previous session
that Tokyo could halt selling yen for dollars by the end of

James Turk''s ''Eight Reasons to Ignore the New Central Bank Gold Agreement''

Section: Daily Dispatches

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WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) -- Foreign exchange
intervention can be a useful short-term policy tool but
cannot truly manipulate the world's three major currencies
because of vast global capital flows, Japan's top financial
diplomat said on Tuesday.

Silver miners can bust the price suppression by converting cash to metal

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:52p ET Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Freemarket Gold amp; Money report has published
an essay by its editor, James Turk, proprietor
of GoldMoney.com and consultant to GATA, quot;Eight
Reasons to Ignore the New Central Bank Gold
Agreement,quot; and the essay has been posted in the
clear at GoldSeek.com here:

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A surge in institutional investor interest in Durban Deep

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Theodore Butler
March 16, 2004

Last week the state copper mining company of Chile,
Codelco, made an extraordinary announcement. Actually,
an extraordinary announcement was also made last year,
when Codelco first decided to withhold 200,000 tons of
its roughly 1.2 million-ton annual copper production
until world copper inventories declined from excessive
levels and prices recovered from then-depressed levels

Japan considers ending currency intervention; U.S. Treasury won''t comment

Section: Daily Dispatches

If Newmont merged with Barrick ...
What-if scenario

David Berman
Financial Post (National Post), Canada
Thursday, March 11, 2004

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In a what-if scenario that could make gold bugs drool
with excitement, an analyst at National Bank Financial

Metals shares fall even as gold nears $400 again; analyst sees $433 in May

Section: Daily Dispatches

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NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) -- The Bank of Japan
is mulling ending its massive yen-selling interventions
in the currency market by the end of March, the Nihon
Keizai Shimbun reported from Tokyo in its early
Tuesday edition.

quot;Some central bank officials predict that it will walk away

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Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold gains ground as dollar weakens;
Metal may make run at January's $433 high, analyst says

By Myra P. Saefong
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Monday, March 15, 2004

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Gold futures climbed Monday to close just 40 cents short
of $400 an ounce as weakness in the U.S. dollar following

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